For real. Also how is bushels over 40 without any cashers and a bazillion fascists.

Everybody who finishes well is completely self sustaining. Fasc are farmer/oilers who stock enough of each for oil tmbr

Farmers don't sell much of their food.

It's a catch 22 situation: the market is not realiable -> people choose strategies that have limited need for the market and they invent ways to interact less with it -> this causes less turnover on the market, which makes it even less reliable.

And that is how recessions happen kids :P

This is nothing. Until last set, for half a year at least bushels would average 50, and hit 60 or 70 at points every set. A good all-x casher will hit 50M easy though, even in those conditions.

What little bit of market fluidity there is you can all thank FM/CWG and suiciders

What's oil tmbr?

I know converting to Theo while your stock is on the market to avoid the loss, then jumping off your private is a strategy, but Theo has to sell their bushels on the public market so how does that work here?

Wouldn't you wanna just jump as fascist or maybe demo? And what does oil have to do with it you just gonna get stuck with oil you can't sell it on private can you?

I've been out of the loop for years I dunno

after buying priv empty then drop land to 1-100 acres and turn available oil to military units and buy all or as much as can of those oil generated units.

http://earthempires.com/forum/post/621884/perm

was supposed to make oiler more viable but did it happen or not is upto debate.

food can be sold as a monarchy for 35 on private and then you can switch to theo, build 1 turn of mil bases, drop all the rest of your land and then burn oil for units on your private market and buy them.

Ofc you have to do all this in the right order, keep the right tech levels and do your math right, but thats basically it

Your order is wrong?
You build mbs with last turn before switch to mono. You don't want your bushels or money on hand for your one turns worth of bases.
Build, Mono, recall, sell, theo.

Yes. Theres basically 2 ways to do this depending on market prices, people need to do some legwork on their own. If mil tech prices are high or the market lacked the points to max mil tech you will want to build the MBs later. In alliance or FFA conditions and ideally on team too your order is right.

If you do build your MBs with $X billion on hand you will lose .1% of what exceeds 2B tho which is alright in my book compared to spending maybe $40k/acre on mil tech. High mil tech prices suck but are often a reality on team server because the techers are often few and oblivious to lategame market trends or even looking at the market. :)

Darkprince: I was asking more if my order was wrong, than I was saying his was.

Does anyone convert to full mbr without this land drop oiler business anymore?

Like old Theo tech > mbr

yes but since cost of build up is high and also takes more time (unless has very high bpt) when has alot land and during build up nothing is produced for selling and on last day (or last few days) not much tech is bought (until priv is emtied and no military on public) so not much money from techsales and also its slow compared to oil jump.